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A few months ago we, the good folk of Ryton, finally got a new fleet of buses on our route. For years we’ve watched in envy as the residents of Low Fell, Whickham, Consett got fancy new buses with TV screens, comfy seats and room for wheelchairs and pushchairs (sorry, that’s buggies to you hep young cats).
So now we’ve got our new Mercedes Benz cruisers. The seating arrangements are a little eccentric — rather more rear-facing seats than most are comfortable with but I for one can live with that.
But, one thing no one ever thought was wrong with the old buses was the bell pushes. I mean, what do you expect of a bell push? Push the button, the bell rings, driver knows someone wants to get off at the next stop. Simple? Not simple enough for whoever fitted these buses out. There’s some kind of fancy embedded trickery to this bell system whose effect is when you press the button the bell doesn’t ring for a second or two. So, unless you’re wise to the system, you press the button, nothing happens, you press it again.
But of course the fancy embedded trickery has been designed to deal with this situation and only rings the bell once no matter how many times the buttons are pressed. Pish. The fancy embedded trickery it seems, is only there to ensure that the driver is assailed with an onslaught of ringing at popular stops.
Honestly, you’d think it was Santa arriving in his sleigh at the Metrocentre.
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